TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. In the video — one of two new ones that have been posted on YouTube — Ford is shown in a fast food restaurant rambling and talking […]
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up. By age 16, […]
Tom and the crew open the show talking about the two people on trial for bad butt injections, Chris Bosh’s latest custody plea, Chris Brown’s latest charge and Jamaica‘s fight for gay rights.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A gay rights activist got his first court hearing Tuesday on his effort to bring a constitutional challenge to Jamaica’s nearly 150-year-old colonial-era law that bans sex between men. The rare court challenge to the 1864 anti-sodomy law is being pushed by Javed Jaghai, a young outreach worker for the Jamaica […]
MANDEVILLE, Jamaica (AP) — In this affluent town in Jamaica’s cool, mountainous interior, Jasmine Pottinger has realized the dream that kept her going while dealing with racism, culture shock and other challenges during almost four decades of working in drizzly London, a city where she never felt entirely accepted. The 73-year-old retired nurse and her […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the Caribbean island’s top mining official said Tuesday. Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said Japanese researchers believe they have found “high concentrations of […]
CHARLES TOWN, Jamaica (AP) — In a backwoods town along a river cutting between green mountains, quick-footed men and women spin and stomp to the beat of drums. One dancer waving a knife is wrapped head-to-foot in leafy branches, his flashing eyes barely visible through the camouflage. This traditional dance re-enacts the Jamaican Maroons' specialty: […]
Relatives say a founding member of the influential band The Skatalites has died in Jamaica at age 80. Family spokeswoman Maxine Stowe says bassist Lloyd Brevett died Thursday at a Kingston hospital. He had suffered a stroke in March, two weeks after his son was murdered by gunmen outside the family’s home. Brevett was an […]
